Piedmont Buggy Factory, also known as Bearskin Cotton Mills and Monroe Cotton Mills, is a historic building located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It was built in 1910, and is a three-story, rectangular brick building with a shallow pitched gable roof. The brick is in six distinct shades of red. Also on the property are the contributing late-1910s one-story brick boiler house and a steel water tower (c. 1910). Originally built as a buggy factory, in the late 1910s the factory was converted to textile production and renamed the Bearskin Cotton Mills. The facility remained in operation through 1956.[2]
Piedmont Buggy Factory | |
 Piedmont Buggy Factory, September 2012 | |
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| Location | 514 Miller St., Monroe, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 34°59′20″N 80°32′46″W / 34.98889°N 80.54611°W |
| Area | 2.4 acres (0.97 ha) |
| Built | 1910 |
| Architectural style | Bungalow/craftsman |
| NRHP reference No. | 04000569[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 2, 2004 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (December 2003). "Piedmont Buggy Factory" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.